Evening Bicycle Rides

Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4.5, 1/100 sec, ISO250
“Uphill” Cedar Park, 2020

こんばんは。How’s it going?

Many of you know, but I have been doing a 365 project for a while now, and it kind of connects to this blog in that my daily photo becomes the subject matter. Sometimes, it’s the reverse, where I make a daily blog post and then take a photo. But usually the photos will just be the literal snapshot of something that happened that day, and I’ll add a few words.

Because of this process, my posts tend to follow whatever hobbies I am into at the time and right now, going out for bicycle rides around the neighborhood is something I have more of an interest now since we all are staying at home almost all the time.

It got me thinking of a bicycle ride I went on in 1982 with a group from the YMCA. Two friends and I joined a 9-day bicycle tour that started in San Francisco, and ended at the YMCA in our hometown of Torrance. It was really fun, but surprisingly I hadn’t thought about it too much since then. Maybe I’ll write about my memories of that in another post, as I managed to find some old photos of the trip when I visited my parents last Christmas.

But for now, I’ll just continue with some photos I took on tonight’s ride. 🚲

I hope you had a nice day! またね~

Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.2, 1/100 sec, ISO400
“Seat and Bags” Cedar Park, 2020
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4, 1/680 sec, ISO200
“Neighborhood Construction” Cedar Park, 2020

Sunday Baseball and Cat

Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2.8, 1/100 sec, ISO500
“Anko and Shohei” Cedar Park, 2020

Today Bay and I worked on our DIY project and watched some baseball. You can see in the photo the beginnings of the modular system that Bay designed. So far we have a few flat shelves and a little box that they can hide in and use as a stip to get to the next “level”. It’s coming along!

DIY Project

Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5, 1/25 sec, ISO3200
“Designing” Cedar Park, 2020

Bay and I have been working on a project at home: shelves and walkways on our living room wall for the cats to enjoy. The first step was for Bay to design it, and he went used his new skills as a rising sophomore architecture student to create a modular system.

In the photo above, Bay is referencing the designs he created on his laptop. I like this photo because I used to sit the same way when I was a kid. 😊

We’re still working on it, but the project is coming along nicely!

Snapshots From the Evening Ride

Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5, 1/100 sec, ISO1000
“Reflection” Cedar Park, 2020
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5, 1/1800 sec, ISO200
“Hike & Bike” Cedar Park, 2020
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5, 1/1400 sec, ISO200
“Bicycle Silhouette” Cedar Park, 2020
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5, 1/2200 sec, ISO200
“Goodbye Sun” Cedar Park, 2020